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Create Lookup Table action mentioned in documentation, not present in app

Ryan Schamp

The Jira Cloud Automation Actions documentation (here) mentions a "Create lookup table" action, however, that action isn't present in the Automation app. This would be incredibly helpful for a number of my current and planned automations.

Is this something that's coming soon?

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Darryl Lee

Wow! Great find @Ryan Schamp !!

Of course now I want to know:

can we help beta test it?
is there a way to build the lookup table programmatically, or via a web request?
when is this coming to production?

But yeah there a LOT of if-else-else-else rules out there that would be much simpler to implement with a lookup table!

(Neat stuff, @Bill Sheboy

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Darryl Lee

Wow! Great find @Ryan Schamp !!

Of course now I want to know:

can we help beta test it?
is there a way to build the lookup table programmatically, or via a web request?
when is this coming to production?

But yeah there a LOT of if-else-else-else rules out there that would be much simpler to implement with a lookup table!

(Neat stuff, @Bill Sheboy

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Ryan Schamp and @Darryl Lee

Thanks for that information!

This feature would help with several use cases...although I wonder how it will align with the problems where smart values and created variables often cannot be used as function parameters (as they resolve to null). Or in smart value, list filtering.

It appears that documentation page changed some time after 9 December 2022 (according to internet archive captures), and the feature is not in production or in the rules example library instance yet.

The feature isn't in the public backlog as a suggestion and the old Code Barrel backlog was recently removed so no way to check if it was in there either.

If only there was someone who was a community leader on this thread who could ping the Atlassian product people for more information... ;^)

Kind regards,
Bill

Darryl Lee

Wait wait, am I the community leader?

Heh. I guess that's me. Well, while leaders do have a Slack where we can chat with Atlassian Community staffers, and we sometimes get to talk to Product folks, we don't actually have a Batphone that hooks us up. Although what I really need I think is a Batdirectory.

Bad metaphors aside, I do have access to see which Atlassian folks have been posting about new Automation features. Heh.

So... @Srini Chakravarthy and @Michael Fedulov -- can you give us any insights into this apparently new and upcoming "Create Lookup Table" function? :-}

(And hey, on the plus side, the documentation is clearly ahead of schedule in their work! Just need those screenshots! :-)

Simmo_9kntn7

Heya folks!

This was my innovation week project and it is coming to Automation rules near you soon. The docs unfortunately got published a little early. We're dogfooding it ourselves at the moment to make sure its solid. I've already found one little issue with it.

Since you asked, I'll get a screenshot shortly.

Eden Eliyahu

can you explain how to use it?

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Eden Eliyahu

Please review the article announcing the feature release; it describes the usage of the lookup tables: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/New-Automation-action-Create-lookup-table/ba-p/2311333

The short answer is: add key/value pairs for what you want, and then reference them with the get() function.

And, I highly recommend reading all of the comments in that article as they will describe some known capabilities/limitations.

Kind regards,
Bill

Eden Eliyahu

amazing feature!

few questions:

1- When it will be possible to add more than 20 rows?

2- I have multiple rows that need to get the same value. are you going to support "in" function? Now I added 6 rows with the same value, but only the key is different.

thanks

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